Carrollton PD, University of Texas at Dallas Team Up to Reduce Response Times

By Ben Russell •Published September 23, 2019•Updated on September 23, 2019 at 7:20 am

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The Carrollton Police Department will be able to respond to calls for help far faster than ever before, thanks to an assist from an Assistant Professor of Criminology at the University of Texas at Dallas.

Andrew Wheeler, Ph.D., recently helped to redesign the beat patrol system that Carrollton police had been using for years to make it more efficient and reduce each officer’s travel distance by about 20 percent.

Although each beat patrol area in the city was roughly the same size, the average call loads could differ from 15 calls in one section of the city compared to 24 calls, on average, in other areas that were more prone to crime, according to Wheeler.